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Closing a live Website down - and leaving just a new home page

by KenJ
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I have never done this before, can you help.
A client of mine is closing down his B & B business. He therefore want to close his website down for future bookings. He also wants a simple home page left to give map directions and basic info for existing bookings.

Is OK to clear out the site through Filezilla and reload up the new page? Or is there a better way to approach this?

Added Info - It is not a wordpress blog. html site done in Dreamweaver

Thanks

KenJ
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Don't over-complicate it

    The way you described it - it's the perfect way to do it!
    Delete everything (including database if it had one) from the server. Upload the new page (and images, whatever is needed).
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    • Profile picture of the author KenJ
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Don't over-complicate it

      The way you described it - it's the perfect way to do it!
      Delete everything (including database if it had one) from the server. Upload the new page (and images, whatever is needed).
      Thanks Istvan,

      I do tend to over complicate things.

      KenJ
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew H
    I would FTP the files to your computer before deleting and .zip them up for him... just in case.
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    • Profile picture of the author KenJ
      Thanks Andrew. I did that anyhow. I have done the work and it worked fine.

      KenJ
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  • Profile picture of the author danielph
    Just add a completly new page, and delete everything, this is the best way
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  • Profile picture of the author SmallBizWebsites
    Delete everything? Has anybody heard of 404 Errors? If you delete everything then any Google listings for the deleted pages, or any bookmarked links to the deleted pages will return 404 - Page Not Found messages to the visitor. This is a very clumsy way to do things.

    Yes, go ahead and delete everything, but then edit the server .htaccess file and add one line of code. This will cause your Home page to be displayed if any requests are made for the deleted pages:

    ErrorDocument 404 /
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonnjon
    Why not redirect the homepage to a custom page where old customers can get their booking info rather than deleting all the files.. Deleting the files will do no good unless you really don't need them for later use or reference..
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  • Profile picture of the author Niks24
    Hi,

    You Can Keep the Back up Of The Website and Can delete Every Thing and Put one Pop Up Mentioning the things needs on the page.

    Thanks
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